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This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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Cedefop Briefing Note - More effective VET and lifelong learning policies: awareness raising, analysis and advice - Cedefop's achievements in 2012 and plans for 2013

Posted January 31, 2013 - 20:05

We are pleased to send you Cedefop's latest Briefing Note “More effective VET and lifelong learning policies: awareness raising, analysis and advice - Cedefop’s achievements in 2012 and plans for 2013” for you to download in your preferred language (Spanish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Polish and Portuguese) and format (Pdf or eBook optimised for tablets and smartphones).

An Opportunity We Should Not Lose - Barcelona International Conference on Knowledge, Transformation and Higher Education

Posted January 28, 2013 - 08:07

Several of you are already deeply involved or know about the forthcoming Barcelona International Conference on Knowledge, Transformation and Higher Education, so please accept our apologies for the duplication!

"We are willing to organize everything to make this the most creative and productive world conference ever on community-university engagement" Cristina Esgrigas and GUNi colleagues

New Project - Innovation in Higher Education

Posted January 26, 2013 - 20:44

LSE Enterprise, the consulting arm of the London School of Economics, and Panteia, a policy research group based in the Netherlands, are conducting a study on Innovation in Higher Education on behalf of the Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission. 

Entrepreneurship Education Is Paramount To Combat Youth Unemployment

Posted January 25, 2013 - 18:15

In the wake of the global economic downtown trends have emerged that are threatening the future workforce. There are 75 million who are currently unemployed and more than 200 million youth who are earning less than $US2 per day. Yet 1/3 of businesses are still unable to fill vacancies due to skills gap. Therefore educational systems are not preparing young people properly to enter the labor market.

Harvard Scholar Launches Knowledge Curation Platform - Academic Room

Posted January 25, 2013 - 15:50

Academic Room is the first multidisciplinary knowledge platform where you can build open communities to curate academic content within well-defined areas—ranging from philosophy, history and economics to engineering, architecture and medicine.  The platform also dramatically reduces time to locate both credible scholarship and experts within a field of research.  Academic Room is an independent initiative that is headquartered in the Harvard Innovation Lab.

 

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